Catherine Mann is a USA Today bestselling author who has published numerous books with Berkley, Sourcebooks, and Harlequin Desire. Catherine has won a Rita Award, a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, a Booksellers' Best Award, and celebrated six RITA Award finals.

Catherine holds a master's degree in Theater from UNC-Greensboro and a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston.

(Noteworthy: There are multiple Catherine Mann authors other than the one cited here. There is another Catherine Mann romance author who wrote in the late 1900s and married actor Fred Grandy. There is an economist Catherine Mann who writes global economy novels. Some sources have erroneously blended biographical facts from these three Catherine Manns.)